"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Travel and Tourism I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
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-- William Temple Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
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-- Aldous Huxley Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
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-- Gilda Radner "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Travel and Tourism
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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-- Crowf There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
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-- Michel de Montaigne Travel and Tourism The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
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-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
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-- Thoreau If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Travel and Tourism
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
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-- Robert Frost In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Travel and Tourism One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
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-- Unknown history student What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Travel and Tourism "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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-- INDIRA "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Travel and Tourism Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Travel and Tourism
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
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- Niels Bohr Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Travel and Tourism May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Travel and Tourism
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Travel and Tourism If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Travel and Tourism
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
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-- Anonymous "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
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coachin Travel and Tourism Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Travel and Tourism
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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